Dan Lyons is the next Valleywag
I'm excited to announce our next Valleywag: Dan Lyons, of Newsweek, Readwrite, and "Fake Steve Jobs" infamy, will be helming Valleywag.Gawker.com starting in January. Lyons is a bruiser, and returns from his self-inflicted exile from tech blogging when he's needed most, to preside over the implosion of one of late…
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of November 9th
Several people have asked for clarification on our social media guideline, which I mentioned might be in review. The following, developed by our editorial leadership, is Gawker Media's current thinking.
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of November 2nd
While you may only know Deadspin's writers as smooth jazz lovers with all the charm of ambulatory kidney stones, it turns out they can write good. Good enough for books that can be read on the can!
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of October 26th
Weird to think, but we're already working on 2015 plans, at least over here in the Corner of Directing. I'm putting together a plan for the Edit group (GMGI), which I'll be happy to share when I make it all pretty.
About Bullying
About a week ago, one of our writers made a bad joke. "Ultimately #GamerGate is reaffirming what we've known to be true for decades: Nerds should be constantly shamed and degraded into submission." It was a joke, sure, but a stupid one, and he apologized.
Editorial Round-Up, Week of October 5th
Consider Kotaku. Our gaming site turned 10 this week. (As did Jalopnik!)
X Things I Learned Driving a Cadillac Through Somewhat-Eastern Europe
I'm a loaner car abuser. I don't care. As a New Yorker, I barely get an excuse to drive a car more than a couple of times a year. So when I can—and it's still not as often as I would like—I ask Travis or Matt to call in a car for me.
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of September 28th
We began discussions for a minor site refresh project—mostly visual—that will be implemented early next year, with development starting over the next few months. More details soon, as for now there are few details to share. We're basically just collecting ideas!
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of September 21st
Good afternoon from the couch of news. I'm home today, as are most of the 210 Editorial staff, as we add a few more desks to the 4th floor in our final renovation before we move to 17th Street next year. Hopefully the additional 6 seats will tide us over until then, although I suspect we'll still be full to bursting.
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of September 8th
This week, everyone at Gizmodo learned how to write this:
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of September 1st, 2014
For me, a week of planning to plan. I'll be formalizing a weekly editorial stand-up meeting, starting Monday after next. I'm working with each of the site leads to codify their site missions and editorial plans for 2015. And while I intended to be dragged behind a car today—for a reason—I instead stayed in the office…
Gawker Media Hits 80 Million U.S. Uniques (And Q4 Awaits)
Earlier this year, I set a traffic goal for the Gawker Media Network of 80 million U.S. uniques, to be achieved by the end of the year. I'm pig-in-shitted to announce that as of today, Gawker Media has crossed that line, bringing in 81.3 million U.S. uniques over the last 30 days, as part of a greater 126.8 million…
What are the best driving roads between Frankfurt, Germany and Venice, Italy?
And let's say that I'm willing to take modest detours to get to them. Oh, and after Venice we're driving to Croatia, then on to Budapest, and then back to Frankfurt. Gonna be a long one.
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of July 21st
Creative cultures. That's the thing I've been thinking about, reading about, and discussing with everyone this week, in preparation for our All Hands meeting next Wednesday, as well as our management trip to Budapest in August.
I started playing Hearthstone finally
I had screwed around in the tutorial but that was it. But I finally played a few matches yesterday and now I'm...well, not hooked, but I get it now. Where can I find some basic strategies about deck building though? I still have no idea.
Editorial Wrap-Up, Week of July 7th
Get ready, summer fun fans—we're going to have an All-Hands Meeting. Expect discussion about our core motivating principles, best practices, future Kinja developments, and highlights from each of the major titles on Kinja.
Let's Teach Nick Denton About Motorcycle Jackets
Ol' Man Denton wanted to buy a scooter. Nothing wrong with that. "I like scooters fine. But why not just get a motorcycle?" I asked. Especially since he was looking at 600-pound BMW maxi-scooters, which are great machines, but not exactly the little Soho-to-Brooklyn runabout he was talking about in the first place.